Post #4503292
2026-08-10 23:05 UTC
🗣ALLERGIES TESTING SHOULD BE STANDARD PROTOCOL FOR PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
we could see immediately, in our own toothpastes, how those changes in 1994 were wrecking havoc for some people.
changes in sweetners were triggering allergic reactions by the thousands, but the biggest, OMFG was the base of the paste itself.
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@blogdiva@mastodon.social 2026-08-10 23:13
some fuckwad in one of the subsidiaries decided to try creating a compound with silica to save money on the chalk used over 100 years to make toothpaste. it ended up as exactly as you can imagine: the company paying up for “personal injury” cases and gagging people about mentioning anything in public. which takes me back to the point of the triclosan patent: they literally were trying to create a need, for an antimicrobial, that wasn’t there…🧵